Overview

• The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for May 15 to consider whether lower courts overstepped in issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
• Trump's January 20 executive order seeks to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents, a policy blocked by federal district courts in Washington, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
• The administration argues that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause does not extend to children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visa holders, challenging over a century of legal precedent.
• Challengers, including 22 Democratic state attorneys general and immigrant rights groups, contend the order violates the Constitution and could strip citizenship from hundreds of thousands of children annually.
• The Court's decision, expected by the end of June, could address both the constitutionality of the order and the broader issue of nationwide injunctions as a judicial tool.